Valley PBS and KVPR brace for major losses as Corporation for Public Broadcasting shuts down

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The non-profit that provides grants to section stations, specified arsenic Valley PBS and NPR programs, announced contiguous it volition statesman shutting down operations and cutting a bulk of its jobs.

This quality comes little than a period aft the White House clawed backmost much than 1 cardinal dollars of already appropriated national funds for section broadcasting.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is to unopen down successful the coming months aft a palmy enactment led effort to defund section stations similar PBS and NPR.

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President and General Manager of KVPR, the valley's section NPR station, Joe Moore, says they are searching for solutions.

"Within an hr of the ballot from Congress, we were connected the aerial talking to our listeners. Telling them what's happening successful Washington, what it means for KVPR, and asking for support," says Moore.

These cuts are unprecedented arsenic CPB has been astir since the 60s.

For Valley PBS, it's a nonaccomplishment of astir 25% of its funding, which could endanger thing from section programming to children's shows similar Sesame Street.

But for KVPR, the nonaccomplishment isn't arsenic great. They expect a chopped of astir 7% of their wide fund for the adjacent fiscal year.

"We are facing the imaginable nonaccomplishment of section coverage, the imaginable downsizing of our operations, and the nonaccomplishment of programs that listeners person travel to emotion and trust on," says Moore.

So far, they haven't chopped immoderate unit but person had to permission unfastened positions vacant for the clip being.

"We person fundamentally 2 months to rise replacement backing to guarantee we don't person to instrumentality those cuts," says Moore.

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In a Truth Social Post, the President called nationalist broadcasting, 'atrocious' and a discarded of money.

But Moore says it's not that elemental for nationalist stations to crook private.

"A batch of stations that are connected the commercialized broadside are for profit, and they are allowed to merchantability advertising. Federal regulations don't let non-commercial broadcast teams. Our licence stipulates that we cannot merchantability an ad," says Moore.

"We're not asking to beryllium a commercialized broadcaster that's not our role," says Moore.

As of Friday, KVPR has raised astir $100,000. That's astir $75,000 abbreviated of what they request to raise. If they are incapable to marque up for that amount, cuts whitethorn beryllium connected the horizon.

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